It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake

[420]

Who: 420 & bethehugejerk
When: January 30th
Where: Gamzee's kitchen
Style: Action
Status: Closed

[So, it had taken about two ingredient-gathering trips, --two-and-a-half if you counted Gamzee taking a wrong turn and having to have his ass gathered from the pet food isle-- but finally everything they were going to need was set out on Gamzee's kitchen table. It's all there: the ingredients, the kitchen equipment, the tiny ass moirail sure to help Gamzee turn all this shit into the ballest of birthday cakes ever to be constructed by two aliens for their human big-not-sister who happened to be a witch.

Grinning, Gamzee claps his hands, glancing at Karkat for a moment.]

Aight. Lets fuckin' do this shit.

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[bethehugejerk]

Damn right I did. That corruption of trollhood deserved them for daring to exist in the same reality as me.

[He gets what he means just fine. Back to whisking.]

In short, Lily deserves the best cake we can make for her.

[420]

She really does, our motherfuckin' miracle-working sister.

[He smiles, leaning against the table, waiting for more instructions from Karkat. He knows how to do this, of course, but hey, if Karkat wants to play cake-leader, he is 0k with that in ways dead Aradia would be jealous of.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat checks his bowl, and... yeah, that looks mixed well enough. Another check to the recipe to see what's next.]

Okay. I have to put some of this in, then some of the milk, then the rest of this, and then the milk again. You mix while I do that, got it?

[He scoots over, holding his bowl carefully. If Gamzee's got it, then he'll start adding the first bit.]

[420]

Got it.

[He holds his bowl to his stomach, whisking with expert flicks of the wrist as he waits for Karkat to add his part of the mixture, then the milk, then the rest, and then more milk. Yes. They are totally making this happen.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat continues that careful attitude now, adding each part with a steady hand to keep from spilling it. Flour mixture, milk, flour, milk again. And with Gamzee's good mixing, they should all add just fine.]

[420]

[Gamzee keeps up with the mixing until everything is mixed into a smooth, nice looking mixture. Then he pauses his whisking for a moment to pop a finger into the bowl, licking the batter off of his finger. Okay. That tastes nice.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Pap!]

No putting your fingers in it, we need that. Now, we need to divide it into... [Check.] Six bowls, it says. Evenly.

[Which he goes to get, setting them out in a row so that Gamzee can do that part.]

[420]

Gotta fuckin' get your taste on, bro. How else are you all gonna be in the motherfuckin' know if this shit will up and be turning into a real good miracle?

[He'll get to dumping the batter into the bowls though. It is... more or less evenly.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Eyeroll.] No more than that, alright?

[He checks the bowls after him, sometimes adding from one to another until he is personally satisfied with their evenness.]

Now we need to add the coloring to each. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, in that order.

[420]

[He can't promise that. He loves putting his fingers into things.

Gamzee picks through their ingredients, finally unearthing the food dye, staring at it as if he is amazed.]

Fuck, man. You know I weren't even all in the fuckin' know for miracles like this all getting their exist on.


[Alternia is not much known for dying its food happy cheerful colours.]

[bethehugejerk]

[Unless it's made from dead grubs, but that's more by nature than design.]

Humans are rainbowphiles or something. I don't know why they thought of it and I don't really care, either.

[He motions at the first bowl.]

I'm not sure how much to add, so put in a little and stir, then keep going until it looks right. And hand me some of those, it'll go faster if we both work at it.

[420]

Aight.

[He snags up the red to get down to business here. Gonna make it the best motherfuckin' red too. Karkat red! Which... well, is the best motherfuckin' red.]

[bethehugejerk]

[It's a bit strange watching Gamzee go and make food that exact shade of red. A bit unnerving, really. But it's food, just food, a cake, no blood or anything in it, all celebration. With that in mind he takes up the last bowl, picking out the right colors to mix in. Something purplish, but... he adds some blue, and before long the batter is looking distinctly indigo.]

[420]

[Gamzee totally notices that indigo shade there, bro. His arms still full of batter bowl and mixing equipment, he instead opts for lowering his head enough to give Karkat an affectionate head bump, before he focused on his red mixture again. Eventually, once he is certain it is in fact the best shade of Karkat-red, he sets it aside for a new bowl and a fresh colour. Time to mix some awesome Nepeta green if he can manage it.]

[bethehugejerk]

[For the head bump, Karkat sticks out his tongue. You can't say it's not appropriate for the top and bottom layers to be their colors, if they're the ones making this cake for Lily. But when Gamzee goes to make one of the bowls the same green as Nepeta, he comes up with another shade, himself. He takes another bowl (once the indigo is evenly mixed) and sets to making it Sollux yellow.]

[420]

[Which, all in all, leaves only blue and orange to cover. Gamzee grabs one of the two remaining bowls and the blue food colour, going to town with it, obviously aiming for a nice dark shade of Equius b100 blue.

When they will be finished this cake will be like eating a rainbow of friends.

Freaky.

Yet delicious.]

[bethehugejerk]

[That leaves the orange for him to mix. He takes up the bowl and thinks... And well. Not much other option. After some experimenting with colors, it becomes clear that this one will be Tavros's shade, which is a bit more peanut butter- or chocolate-hued than orange. Considering the other option was Vriska's god tier sweatsuit, something more drab isn't such a loss.]

There. Now we need to get the pans ready, then we can pour these in and bake them.